Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Dean, Arthur Lyman October 1, 1878 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd., Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ARTHUR LYMAN DEAN, Educator and Scientist. Dr. Arthur L. Dean, president of 
the University of Hawaii, is known to scientists and the medical profession as 
the chemist who solved the laboratory problem of refining chaulmoogra oil into 
the specific which is now used most effectively as a palliative in the 
treatment of leprosy.
  Dr. Dean arrived in Honolulu on June 15, 1914, to accept the presidency of 
the College of Hawaii, and has continued in that position since the 
institution became the University of Hawaii on July 1, 1920. Physicians 
dealing with leprosy in Hawaii had known for years, as it was known elsewhere, 
that chaulmoogra oil operated to check the ravages of the disease, but in its 
crude form it was of comparatively little value. The problem thus presented 
was taken to the laboratories of the College of Hawaii, where methods were 
developed for the preparation of the materials now in use.
  Born in Southwick, Mass., on Oct. 1, 1878, Dr. Dean is the son of William 
Kendrick and Nellie May (Rogers) Dean. He was graduated from the Dedham, 
Mass., high school in 1896, obtained the degree of A. B. from Harvard 
University in 1900 and was awarded the degree of Ph.D. by Yale University in 
1902. He spent the next 12 years as assistant instructor, and assistant 
professor at Yale, except for one year when he was associated with A. D. 
Little of Boston. In addition to his duties on the Yale faculty he served as a 
research assistant for the Carnegie Institution for one year and as chief of 
the section of wood chemistry for the United States Forest Service for several 
years. In addition to his other duties, Dr. Dean in 1924 accepted the position 
of director of the experiment station of the Association of Hawaiian Pineapple 
Canners.
  Dr. Dean has served as president of the Hawaiian Board of Missions and is a 
member of the University Club and the Social Science Association of Honolulu.
  He married Leora E. Parmelee on Aug. 11, 1904. They have three children, 
Sylvia, Lyman A., and Peirson G. Dean.


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